When to call a project a wash
I’ve written previously about the importance of finishing projects you start. It’s something I finally got around to committing to way too late in l...
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The unexpected benefits of an unexpected walk
When I went to get the snow tires swapped out at the dealership today, I was told that there were already a few people waiting inside, and so for the sixty to n...
In search of some digital privacy
I use Gmail, and have for maybe a couple of decades, or whenever it became common enough that its initial, exclusive invite-only clique had run its course and t...
National Day of Unplugging
My wife and I were a bit surprised when our daughter announced after school this past Friday that it was National Day of Unplugging between Friday at 6pm and Sa...
‘Je ne sais quoi’ doesn’t last
I’m a sucker for books. My wife foolishly still leaves me unattended in book stores sometimes, and the result is almost always me ending up with a book or...
Catnip for writers
I’m like most writers I’ve heard of, in that I can’t get enough stationery. Yes, I’d love new index cards or a notebook or pencils or pe...
What I’m working on
I was recently struck with an idea for a fantasy story, almost more of a fairytale, that had some dark elements to it. Not Tim Burton dark, but definitely with ...
New year, new website
It’s been far too long in coming, but hopefully in short order, this website will not only be live (it actually is now, though no one’s checking it ...
Happy New Year and other things
Yes, Happy New Year, as this is the first, if belated, post of 2020. For anyone wondering, I have four resolutions for the year, which seems a reasonable amount...
Hey look, that ball I dropped…
I realized a couple of months back that I had forgotten to post the books I had read for the month. I’d done the tracking and writing up of the list (the ...